Returning to Amiga

[mbrantley]

Hey, Dan! It's Mike Brantley in Mobile, a fellow (and local) Amiga nut from way back when. Funny, but I've got almost the same story. I use a PoweMac dual G5 as my main machine these days, but lately I've been feeling nostalgic about Amigas. I pulled out a couple of my Amigas this weekend from the closet, and I'm looking for an A4000 or an A3000 to mess around with for old time's sake. In the closet all these years have been my A1200, a couple of A1000s, an A2000 and an A2500.

I've decided I want to have a single Amiga set up and running to goof around on in my home computer lab, and I'm trying to decide which one and how far to go with upgrades.

Shoot me an e-mail, and I'll give you my phone number. I don't know if you remember, but I visited you and your former A4000 prior to you selling it in 1995.

[mbrantley]

I'll see what I can do about setting up the 2500 and getting a picture of it online. It looks just like a 2000 with with a different number on the nameplate. This one has a bunch of video BNC connectors on the back of it because there is a SuperGen 2000 genlock installed. This particular machine used to run the weather graphics for a local television station about 12 or 13 years ago using Scala presentation software.

[mbrantley]

g, that's a nice stack of hardware.

Shades, here's a freshly snapped photo of my 2500, dusted off and booted up for the first time in years.

[mbrantley]

Thanks, everyone, for the welcome. Dan, the 2500 came from WALA and not WPMI. It was from back in the days when WALA was the NBC affiliate in Mobile, so it is weird seeing the old Peacock logo on the weather graphics that are on the hard drive.

Tomas, I will get that acid battery timebomb out of there right away. I know what damage those things can do, as I have the bones of a dead A3000 that somebody gave me after a leaking battery destroyed the motherboard.

[mbrantley]

Tomas, you may have saved my computer. Your suggestion prompted me to check on my battery sooner rather than later. So I opened it up tonight and found the battery leaking acid. I removed the battery (nothing to replace it with yet) and cleaned up the motherboard. One A2500 saved!

Then I brought my two A2000 boxes out of the closet (one working last I checked, the other a parts machine with a bad power supply and no drives). Guess what? Both batteries leaking, so I removed them and cleaned up the boards in case I ever need them as parts.

Didn't mean to hijack this thread, but I just wanted to say thanks for the suggestion.